St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25


will be located, the station superin-
tendent's and other offices and the
kitchen and dining rooms. 1t will be
heated by steam and lighted by incan-
descent electric lights. Everything in
and about the building is spacious and
convenient in its appointments, and the
union station will be equal to the
business of city of $4,000 people.
1t will be occupied by the st. Paul &
Duluth, Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
Il Omaha, and the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railways, who now enter the
city on Jan. Is, 1888, the date of it's
formal opening, and by the "Burling-
ton" which will enter the city in the
spring, and by another railroad which
may hereafter lay its tracks to Still
water.
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING.
The new High school building, now
nearly completed, is located at the cor
ner of Third and Pine streets. Archi-
tecturally this is by far the handsOmest
Louis pressed brick with white stone
trimmings, and is three full
stories high with basement for heating
purposes. The first floor, entered
from Third street, is designed for an as
sembly room for the general use of the
city schools. The high school will oc-
cupy the second and third floors, with
the entrance on Pine street. The build
ing itself will cost $4,000, while the
heating apparatus, furniture and fix
lures will probably cost 5000 more.
ASCENSION CHURCH.
This society EpiscopaD, which sus-
tanned the loss of their former edifice by
fire last spring, have just completed
the erection of new one (this time of
brick upon the ruins of the old. 1t has
cost them $12, 900, and is fine building.
CITY LIGHT.
The Saltwater Gas & Electric Light
company have changed their mode Of
manufacturing gas and have put in an
entire set Of works for making water
gas" which are now completed and in
operation. They have also removed the
arc electric light plant to their new
buildings and will add an incandescent
plant soon. Their improvements have
cost them $4,000. The Saltwater Eiec-
trio Light company, who have five
years. contract to light the city with the
incandeScent system, have their plant
in full operation and the city streets are
to be furnished with twenty-five candle
power burners at all street corners,
which will give ample and well-distrib-
uted light the entire night. They
also furnish lights for bust
ness houses and private dwell
ings. Careful estimates of expenditures
for public and private Improvements
the past year in this city place the
grand total at a sum not less than
100000. all but $50, 900 of which is veri-
had them in charge. For the year 1883
the nrpSpnt nntIOOk nIaanc q
much larger sum, and full
half million will be re-
quired to cover it. Business failures
have been few and unimportant, with
but one exception, while there has been
steady and healthy growth all around.
The retail trade of the city is in as
flouriShing state as that of any city of
the same population in the West, while
some OF our houses are extending and
increasing their business in very
flattering manner. The merchants
and business men of Saltwater, as a
rule, have an excellent commercial
standing, and while the retail trade is
we'll supplied in nearly every instance,
the merchant is doing well here.
Should the present experiments in
natural gas result in disclosing the ex-
iStence of that remarkable agent in
qudubItiCS W supply Vic City Will Htdt,
and feed the furnaces of our man
ufacturing concerns the emancipation
from the thrall of the coal mOnOpolies
which would follow would give us a
genuine boom. But, as it is now, the
present business outlook for another
year is more than ttattering. The lum-
Der cut, if the winter proves favor
able, will be unusually large. The
mills will berun next season to greater
capacity than last. The reopening of
the car works and the enlarged opera
tions of the thresher mandatory under
its new management promises to give
new impetus to business in general,
while new enterprises are sure to come,
some of which are already projected.
The Burlington people have already
made arrangements to enter the
city and other roads are seeking connec-
ton here. A year replete with prom
les of prosperity seems dawning upon
the Prison City, and those who read this
briefsreview of the past yeal S business
and achievements may be pardOned for
rendering her citizens their cOngratula-
tiOnc